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In turbulent times, concentrate on what’s important – not what’s new After a year has passed it is customary to take stock. What were the major developments of the year? How should they guide our thinking on managing our businesses more effectively? As a professor of strategy for nearly 20 years now, my mind turned to this question: what were the most powerful business ideas of 2017? My reflections produced...
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Willie Pietersen was raised in South Africa, and received a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. After practicing law, he embarked on an international business career. Over a period of twenty years he served as the CEO of multibillion-dollar businesses such as Lever Foods, Seagram USA, Tropicana and Sterling Winthrop’s Consumer Health Group.
In 1998, Pietersen was named Professor of the Practice of Management at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He specializes in strategy and the leadership of change, and his methods and ideas, especially Strategic Learning, are widely applied within Columbia’s executive education programs, and also in numerous corporations.
